
When his son marries a woman whose mother is the madame of a brothel, a wealthy father in San Francisco disowns him. The newlyweds travel to the South Seas, where he gets a job on a plantation.


The cinematic landscape of the mid-1920s was often a battleground between Victorian moralism and the burgeoning complexities of the Jazz Age. If I Marry Again, directed with a keen eye for social stratification, stands as a quintessential artifact of this era. It is a film that doesn't merely depict a family rift; it ...

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" The cinematic landscape of the mid-1920s was often a battleground between Victorian moralism and the burgeoning complexities of the Jazz Age. If I Marry Again, directed with a keen eye for social stratification, stands as a quintessential artifact of this era. It is a film that doesn't merely depict a family rift; it interrogates the very marrow of class-based prejudice. While many contemporary films like The Italian focused on the immigrant struggle, this narrative turns its gaze inward, towar..."
Kenneth B. Clarke, Gilbert Frankau
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